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A man builds. A parasite asks 'Where is my share?'
A man creates. A parasite says, 'What will the neighbors think?'
A man invents. A parasite says, 'Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God... '

[Trump's] rhetoric is not an abuse of power. In the same way that it's also not against the law to do a backflip off of the roof of your house onto your concrete driveway. It's just mind-numbingly stupid and, to say the least, counterproductive. - Bush did 9-11

I had a strange dream last night. I dreamt I was in Russia somewhere. I was walking down a mall trying to buy a snack to eat. I stopped at a hole-in-the-wall, waited in line, ordered something, and when it came my turn to pay they charged me 221 roubles. I thought "That's about seven dollars!" (I didn't really know the conversion rate but in the dream I was convinced that that was the value.) I knew I was being swindled. I started arguing with the proprietor, trying to say that I was being overcharged and, as politely as possible, that I wouldn't pay. The argument was becoming heated when all of a sudden an alien invasion began.

I ran and hid in a shop around the corner with a couple dozen other people. As the alien mothership began passing overhead a man's head, clearly cut off one of the people in the street, floated through a window and began speaking, explaining that we were to give ourselves up. A group of us picked up a rug off the floor and threw it over the head. As the ship passed by we ran out of the shop down an alleyway and wrestled the head, still wrapped in the rug, into a garbage bin.

The dream jumped ahead several months. Somehow I had made my way to Montreal. It was quiet, the population had obviously been decimated, but I remarked that it was otherwise fairly normal except for the convoy of helicopters leaving the airport.

I don't normally remember my dreams, and this was a weird one. The weirdest part? 221 roubles really is about $7.

I don't normally remember my dreams, and this was a weird one. The weirdest part? 221 roubles really is about $7.

And you (consciously) had absolutely no idea?

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A man builds. A parasite asks 'Where is my share?'
A man creates. A parasite says, 'What will the neighbors think?'
A man invents. A parasite says, 'Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God... '

Nope, no idea. I knew $1 > 1 rouble, but I had no idea what the actual conversion rate was. In the dream I was adamant that 221 roubles was worth about $7 and far too much money for the food I was buying; I have no idea how much food costs in Russia. I've never been to Russia, I don't know anyone from Russia, etc.